The Taliban authorities yesterday ordered a nationwide ban on university education for females, as the hardline Islamists continue to crush Afghan women’s right to education and freedom.

All 33 suspected militant prisoners who seized a Pakistan police station over the weekend were killed and their hostages freed in a clearance operation by special forces yesterday, the defence minister said.

All 33 suspected militant prisoners who seized a Pakistan police station over the weekend were killed and their hostages freed in a clearance operation by special forces today, the defence minister said.

Indicating it is closely following reports that militants have seized control of a counterterrorism centre in Bannu, the United States on Monday offered unconditional support to Pakistan in its battle against the TTP and similar groups, saying that defeating terrorism was a shared goal of both countries.

At least 13 people were injured in a blast near the Umar Farooq Chowk in Balochistan's Khuzdar district in Pakistan last night, police officials said.

Thai military frigates and helicopters were yesterday searching for 31 sailors after a naval vessel sank, with dozens of others having been hauled from choppy waters.

Pakistani authorities yesterday opened talks to try to resolve a stand-off with Islamist militants who were holding several security personnel hostage after seizing control of a counter-terrorism facility in the country’s northwest a day earlier.

Following repeated appeals of the distressed Rohingyas to save their lives, Sri Lankan Navy yesterday rescued 104 Myanmar nationals, who have been adrift in the Andaman Sea for about two weeks with little or no food and water.

Four Pakistani police officers were killed and another four critically wounded yesterday when suspected militants attacked a police station in the country’s volatile northwest, police said.

India on Friday denounced Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari for his uncivilised personal remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying his comments were a new low even for his country.

The UN Refugee Agency has urged regional countries to immediately rescue and safely disembark around 200 Rohingyas who have been stranded on a boat off the coast of Thailand in the Andaman Sea.

Pakistan’s smog-hit Lahore will close schools for two days a week to protect children’s health, with the city yesterday clocking in as the world’s most polluted according to a global air quality index.

The ruling Nepali Congress party has emerged as Nepal’s single largest party after winning 89 seats in the 275-member parliament in a general election last

The ruling Nepali Congress party has emerged as Nepal's single largest party after winning 89 seats in the 275-member parliament in a general election last month, and its leader, Sher Bahadur Deuba, looks set to stay on as prime minister.

Pakistan’s Punjab government has announced the closure of schools three days a week across Lahore in view of aggravated levels of smog..A notification to this effect was issued last night by the provincial government..“In compliance with the directions of honourable Lahore High Court

A roadside bomb killed seven petroleum company employees aboard a bus in northern Afghanistan yesterday, a provincial police spokesman

Pakistan’s Supreme Court yesterday set up a panel of five judges to supervise an investigation into the death of a prominent journalist who was

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said the "Dhaka debacle in 1971 was in fact a military failure that had brought a host of challenges for the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto-led PPP"..Bilawal, also PPP chairman, made the comments on Wednesday at the Nishtar Park rally, organised to m

Pakistan's embassy in Kabul came under attack today with gunfire injuring a Pakistani security guard, officials said, in what Islamabad called an attempt to assassinate its head of mission, who was unhurt.

Sri Lanka said on Thursday that it was reorganising its blackout-prone electricity grid to guarantee power to tourist resorts, in an effort to lure back foreign travellers after a bruising economic crisis.